Interview with Arthur Mitchell. 1971.

New York City Ballet

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The New York City Ballet is the brainchild of Lincoln Kirstein, who envisioned an American Ballet of young native dancers, trained and schooled to perform new, modern repertory. The company now performs 23 weeks of the year under the direction of Peter Martins. For further information see http://www.nycballet.com. From the guide to the New York City Ballet records, 1934-1976, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.) The New York City Ballet ...

Johnson, Virginia, 1950-

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Stevenson, Llanchie

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Dance Theatre of Harlem

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The Dance Theatre of Harlem was founded by Arthur Mitchell in 1969. From the description of News clippings, 1969-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155475988 Collecting area: Materials relating to the history of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Will also accept other dance history materials. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155502455 ...

Abarca, Lydia

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Raines, Walter

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Gruen, John.

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John Jonas Gruen born Sept. 12, 1926 in Paris, France. Educated in Europe and the United States. Mr. Gruen is a portrait photographer; art, dance and music critic. He has written countless articles, reviews, interviews, monograhs and essays for many national and international periodicals. He has lectured extensively at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among other museums, schools and universities and hosted a dance-interview radio program--The Sound of Dance--over WNCN. Fro...

Mitchell, Arthur, 1934-

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Dancer. Dance Theatre of Harlem was founded by Arthur Mitchell, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, as his personal commitment to the people of Harlem following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. From the description of Papers, 1951-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155476013 ...

Balanchine, George

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Ballet dancer and ballet and theater choreographer; the major ballet figure in the twentieth century. From the description of Correspondence and contracts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533853 George Balanchine (1904-1983) was a Russian-American dancer and choreographer. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatre School in Petrograd. He left Russia in 1924, and the same year he was engaged by Serge Diaghilev as a choreographer for his company Ballet...

Shook, Karel

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Bryant, Homer S.

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Dance founder and instructor Homer Bryant was born in the Virgin Islands on the Isle of St. Thomas in 1950 and became involved in dance in middle school. His teacher arranged for him to dance at the Jacob's Pillow Dance School where he studied under some of the most prominent modern dance pioneers. Bryant then came to the attention of dancer and choreographer Arthur Mitchell, founder of the Dance Theater of Harlem, the first African American classical dance company in the United States. Mitchell...